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Free State doubles player Jacob Wong reaches up to hit the tennis ball during the Sunflower League boys tennis tournament at the College Boulevard Activity Center on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Olathe.

Olathe — The Sunflower League boys tennis tournament at the College Boulevard Activity Center came a round away from concluding on Friday before a rain delay postponed the conclusion until Monday at 4 p.m.

Jun Brewer, the Lawrence No. 1 singles player, is set up for a third-place match on Monday. He entered as the No. 5 seed and went 3-1 on Friday. Brewer started with an 8-2 win over Olathe North’s Olivier Ramus and beat Shawnee Mission South’s Aden Braden-Alvarez 8-3.

Brewer faced No. 4-seeded Aidan Lashley from Shawnee Mission East and won 8-7 to reach the semifinal round. There, Brewer lost 8-2 to the No. 1-seeded Brody Feldman from Shawnee Mission East to set up his third-place match with Mill Valley’s Dalton Parde, who entered the tournament with the second seed.

Drew Harrison from Free State entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed. He started with an 8-2 win over Olathe East’s Davis Pritchard and an 8-3 win over Olathe West’s Owen Taylor.

Harrison lost 8-1 to Olathe South’s Nolan Fosha, the No. 3 seeded player in the tournament. He won his first consolation match 8-6 over Gardner Edgerton’s Isaiah Lang and will face Lashley in the fifth-place match.

Asher Sikes, the No. 8 seed singles player from Lawrence, will compete in the ninth-place match on Monday. Sikes started with an 8-0 win over Shawnee Mission South’s Brenden Swanson but lost in the next round to Free State’s Lawrence Dao 8-5.

Sikes won back-to-back matches in the consolation bracket, first with an 8-1 win over Cohen Woller from Shawnee Mission North and second with an 8-6 win over Braden-Alvarez, whom Brewer beat earlier in the tournament. Sikes is set to face Olathe Northwest’s Zaid Ashkar on Monday.

Dao, the ninth-seeded individual, began with an 8-2 and an 8-5 win in the first two rounds. He then lost 8-0 to Feldman, which brought him to the top consolation bracket. Dao lost his first match to Lashley 8-3 to set up a seventh-place match against Lang, who lost to Harrison.

For the doubles teams, Jack Bauch and Josh Lavin from Lawrence were the No. 5 seed. They started with an 8-0 win and an 8-4 win before losing 8-4 to Olathe Northwest’s No. 4-seeded doubles team. Bauch and Lavin lost their first consolation match 8-7 and will be in the seventh-place match on Monday.

Free State’s Connor Coons and Jacob Wang entered as the No. 11 seed and won their first two matches 8-5 and 8-7. Their first loss came against Shawnee Mission East’s No. 3-seeded doubles team, and the Firebird duo also lost their first consolation match to put them up against Bauch and Lavin in the seventh-place match.

The Firebirds’ No. 2 doubles team of Galeno Wills and Kiefer Bullock started the tournament as the 13th seed. They started with an 8-5 win before losing 8-2 in the second round. They lost their next two matches in the consolation bracket and will compete in the 15th-place match against the Lawrence doubles team of Julian Bricker and Xavier Klish.

Bricker and Klish, the 19th seed, won their first match 8-6 but lost their second 8-0. The duo lost 8-2 and 8-0 in the consolation rounds to draw the Free State duo in the 15th-place match.

The tournament will continue at the College Boulevard Activity Center on Monday at 4 p.m., and the regional tournament will also take place there on Saturday, May 10.

photo by: David Rodish/Journal-World

Lawrence singles player Jun Brewer uses both hands on the racket as he hits the tennis ball during the Sunflower League boys tennis tournament at the College Boulevard Activity Center on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Olathe.

photo by: David Rodish/Journal-World

Free State singles player Drew Harrison hits the tennis ball during the Sunflower League boys tennis tournament at the College Boulevard Activity Center on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Olathe.

photo by: David Rodish/Journal-World

Lawrence singles player Asher Sikes winds up to hit the tennis ball during the Sunflower League boys tennis tournament at the College Boulevard Activity Center on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Olathe.

photo by: David Rodish/Journal-World

Lawrence’s Jack Bauch prepares for the serve during a doubles match in the Sunflower League boys tennis tournament at the College Boulevard Activity Center on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Olathe.